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Prof. (Dr.) Manish Prateek M.S., Ph.D. is working as Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor at DBS Global University, with a mixed experience of over 25 years in Industry, Research and Academia.

He is also President of Next Generation Computing Technologies. He did his UG and PG in Computer Engineering from Kursk State Technical University (now South West State University), Kursk, Russia and Ph.D. from L. N. Mithila University, Darbhanga, Bihar, in the area of Manufacturing & Robotics and the title of the thesis is "Automation and Microprocessor Based Control of an Optimally Designed Solar Tracking System".

After completing his degree, he started his career in IT Industry. In the year 1999, he got an opportunity to work on an R&D project for two years in the area of Manufacturing & Robotics at Memorial University of NF, St. John’s Canada.

He is the pioneer in modelling and conceptualizing Industry oriented B. Tech. programs in Computer Science and Engineering in collaboration with IBM India, way back in the year 2010. Nowadays, such UG Level Specialized Programs framework has been accepted, appreciated and adopted by many IT Industries and by Academia as well.

He has guided 16 Ph.D. scholars in the areas of Robotics, Machine Vision, Ad Hoc Network, Image Processing, and Multi-Valued Computing Systems. He has published more than 100 Journal and Conference papers in International Journals and Conferences.

Set-Theoretic Rajan Transform (STRT) is one of the biggest contributions made by him in the area of Computer Science and Engineering and due to which he was nominated and awarded as "Distinguished Academician" a lifetime achievement award for his achievement in Academics and Research & Development, by the Board of Directors of Pentagram Research Centre (P) Ltd. in the year 2010. He is also a Fellow at the Institution of Engineers (India) and is a Life Member of the Indian Society of Technical Education.